The Romance LanguagesMartin Harris, Nigel Vincent Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind. |
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adjectives alternations appear areas auxiliary become Catalan century clauses clitic common complement conditional conjugation consonant construction contrast Creoles definite derived determiner dialects direct discussed distinction effect element European example expressed fact feminine final forms French function future gender gerund give given indicative infinitive inflection instance Italian Italy language Latin latter less lexical linguistic literally major marked marker masculine meaning morphological nasal nominal normal Note noun object Occitan occur origin paradigms participle particularly past pattern perfect person phonemic phrases plural Portuguese position possessive possible precede preposition present pronouns question reference reflexive relative remains respect result Romance Rumanian seems semantic sentence singular Spanish speakers spoken standard stem stress structure subjunctive suffix syllable tense third person usually varieties verb vowel